2016 Deluxe vs Heritage MSRP

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Aug 24, 2015 | 11:52 PM

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Tailsfrommycrib

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Here the quote from the Wall Street journal and the link below.

Shares of the Milwaukee-based company dropped sharply on Tuesday after it reported a 1.3% drop in first quarter retail sales and said it would reduce shipments in the current quarter to trim inventories. Harley executives told analysts they wouldn’t seek to recoup sales by offering discounts, a strategy they said would cheapen the brand.

“We are very committed to protecting our premium brand,” John Olin, Harley’s chief financial officer, said in a conference call.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/harley-d...ion-1429615662

Based off the this information I can only conclude Harley has cheapen their softail line up like they did the Rushmore that has had numerous recalls. My 2013 has had zero problems but I did a lot research on it before I bought it so I knew it was a good bike. It is no secret Harley is lowering quality in order to maximize profits and the Rushmore recalls, the article above, and the hideous street bikes are proof of that.

Aug 25, 2015 | 04:53 AM

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Prot

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Originally Posted by Tailsfrommycrib

Here the quote from the Wall Street journal and the link below. Shares of the Milwaukee-based company dropped sharply on Tuesday after it reported a 1.3% drop in first quarter retail sales and said it would reduce shipments in the current quarter to trim inventories. Harley executives told analysts they wouldn’t seek to recoup sales by offering discounts, a strategy they said would cheapen the brand. “We are very committed to protecting our premium brand,” John Olin, Harley’s chief financial officer, said in a conference call. http://www.wsj.com/articles/harley-d...ion-1429615662 Based off the this information I can only conclude Harley has cheapen their softail line up like they did the Rushmore that has had numerous recalls. My 2013 has had zero problems but I did a lot research on it before I bought it so I knew it was a good bike. It is no secret Harley is lowering quality in order to maximize profits and the Rushmore recalls, the article above, and the hideous street bikes are proof of that.

Any time you change something in a mass produced product, the first one or two years will have a great probability of having unforeseen problems. The Rushmores brought twin cooling and hydraulic clutches as well as the infotainment system. The recalls were for those three items. They were voluntary recalls, not government mandated ones. It is not a case of the motor company cutting quality by going cheap this time. Maybe that could be said of the cam bearings and other things previously, but not one of the recalls were for anything that was carried over from the previous model years. Every recall was for something new.

Aug 25, 2015 | 05:32 AM

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westnash

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Why does the Heritage still have a single front disc brake on a relatively heavy touring machine? Can tubeless tires be run with the Heritage spokes or are tubes required? (2 changes that should have been made).

Aug 25, 2015 | 05:32 AM

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westnash

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Opps, is there an oil cooler on the Heritage? (3rd change that should have been made).

Aug 25, 2015 | 06:30 AM

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cocky

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You can run tubeless on a spoked wheel (heritage, deluxe, etc). My deluxe is tubeless, it has an inner liner inside that makes it possible. When you replace the tire, you replace the inner liner, just like a tube.

Aug 26, 2015 | 04:03 PM

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rideflhr

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You dont have to replace the liner with every tire. The dealer must have told you this.My rear has had 4 tires and same liner. The front liner was replaced once because the idiot at the dealer screwed it up when installing a tire and sent me home with a leaking wheel.
I do like the tubeless spoke wheels and other than the dealer screwup I have never had a problem.If anything I seem to add air less than the tires on my earlier cast wheels.'12 Deluxe

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